Sentence examples for gambled over from inspiring English sources

Baby Left Baby Right – in which a human baby was put on a cushion and people gambled over whether it would fall left or right?

The latest survey from 2011 revealed that 78% of the Finns had gambled over the past year, the most popular gambling activity being National Lottery (i.e. Lotto) with more than half of the Finnish population having gambled Lotto (74%).

They don't want to gamble over the next few days and who can blame them after the FTSE dropped 130 points following the release of the last ADP employment change figures.

"We respectfully request that you reiterate the Department's longstanding position that federal law prohibits gambling over the Internet, including intrastate gambling (e.g. lotteries)." Alisa Finelli, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, declined to comment beyond saying that the department was considering the senators' letter.

In a separate request in July, Senators Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, and Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, asked the Justice Department to clarify its position on Internet gambling, seeking either to affirm that federal law prohibits gambling over the Internet or to make sure that Congress has a role in drafting any expansion of online betting.

In a ruling that dismissed a lawsuit against credit card companies whose services were used to gamble over the Internet, the judge, Stanwood R. Duval Jr. of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, wrote, "at this point in time, Internet casino gambling is not a violation of federal law".

The dispute stretches back to 2003, when Mr. Mendel first persuaded officials in Antigua and Barbuda, a tiny nation in the Caribbean with a population of around 70,000, to instigate a trade complaint against the United States, claiming its ban against Americans gambling over the Internet violated Antigua and Barbuda's rights as a member of the W.T.O.

Cryptologic's primary product is software for gambling over the Internet.

According to Maxwell and Swisher in their History of Hampshire County, West Virginia (1897), Jones had been gambling over the course of several days while in Richmond until a final game left him with only one shilling remaining in his pocketbook.

Australian media mogul Kerry Packer refuted reports that he gambled away $20 million over three days in Las Vegas last month, telling an Australian newspaper that the actual losses were much smaller.

Gambling revenues over all have plummeted in Nevada over the past year, down 18.1percentt in February versus February 2008, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board.